Using 4D menus

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2 total messages Started by David Tsai Mon, 09 Nov 1992 21:45

#392

Author: David Tsai
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 21:45

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In case it wasn't clear, I'd like to thank EVERYONE who has replied to
my messages.  You people have saved my day!

How in the world do you get the menus working in 4D when you leave the
first menu bar?

My menu bar #1 works fine, but when I select an option [say add
purchase] and bring up another menu bar and try to select an option on
it [show help for add purchase or print purchase]...none of the options
work.  Somewhere in the book it says to use negative numbers for
runtime...I tried that everywhere I could thing of but that did not work.

The problem I see is that the menu item does not perform the procedure
assigned to it.

I did some more looking around and I have also found a couple of
commands which I do not understand: "Check Item" and "Menu selected" 
The thing is I don't know if these options are of any use to my problem.
 Help...?

Thanks Again!

Dave Tsai

Re: Using 4D menus

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Author: Mike Hennahane
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:41

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dt1n+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Tsai) writes:

>How in the world do you get the menus working in 4D when you leave the
>first menu bar?
[...]
>work.  Somewhere in the book it says to use negative numbers for
>runtime...I tried that everywhere I could thing of but that did not work.

negative menu bar numbers are the key here.  assigning a negative menu
bar to a layout will APPEND that menubar to the current menubar.  if
you want a whole new menubar, you should set the menubar with the MENU
BAR command, then assign the same menubar to the layout you are using
(but with a NEGATIVE number to activate it).  you will not end up with
2 copies of the same menubar, just one that works.

>The problem I see is that the menu item does not perform the procedure
>assigned to it.

this is the negative menubar problem again.  the items look like they
should work, but they do not.

>I did some more looking around and I have also found a couple of
>commands which I do not understand: "Check Item" and "Menu selected" 
>The thing is I don't know if these options are of any use to my problem.
> Help...?

these have nothing to do with your problem.  check item puts a check
mark next to the item you specify; menu selected tells you which item
was selected off which menu.

--mike

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